In an interview with Le Figaro, HP CEO Meg Whitman stated that Apple may take the PC market lead in 2012, but Hewlett-Packard hopes to reclaim the lead in 2013:

Le Figaro: Apple should become the number one worldwide producer of personal computers in 2012, according to research firm Canalys. Do you have the same forecast?

Meg Whitman: Yes, I think that is possible if you include iPads. Apple carries out formidable work. We need to step up our game and our products to take back first place. Apple may overtake HP in 2012, but we are trying to become the champions again in 2013. We need time for the products that I have helped to develop to arrive on the market.

Meg said “products that I have helped to develop.” She thinks she is the new Steve Jobs at HP and she is the driving force for new products. She doesn’t state that it was the HP ‘team’ that is creating new products.

@Estienne, iPads are already being considered to be a personal computer, which is exactly what they are, along with the iPhone. Just because an iPhone has telephony functions just makes it a personal computer with a built in cellular modem and telephone built into it. It was a stroke of marketing genius to sell the iPhone as a sophisticated mobile phone instead of a pocket or personal computer; Palm and the like had been trying to sell PDA’s for years, and it was only business people who were interested.